1988
Institute
for Humane Studies. Hayek Fund for Young Scholars. Travel and Expenses for
attending the World Congress on Philosophy in Brighton, England, August 21-27,

Publications

Books

1.
The
Myth of the Closed Mind: Understanding Why and How People are Rational.
Publisher: Open Court, Chicago.(110,000 words, 352 pages.)

http://www.opencourtbooks.com/books_n/myth_of_the_closed.htm

3rd
January, 2012.

Editorial
Reviews:

“At last, a twenty-first century philosopher willing to
stand up and argue for the power of sheer human rationality. Because Ray
Percival is so convinced, correctly, of the impact of a rational argument on
the human intellect, he is unafraid to offer a no holds barred, comprehensive
brief on the strength of rationality.Preferring Kant to cant, surveying history and reason from Socrates to
today’s age of terrorism, Percival has written a tract that Milton, Jefferson,
Mill, or Karl Popper would be proud of.The next time I get into an argument with a well-meaning person who
wishes to censor a propagandistic, corporate, or individually hateful point of
view, I will recommend a reading of Percival’s The Myth of the Closed Mind.”

—Paul Levinson, Professor of Communication and Media Studies,
Fordham University and author of New New Media

“Some of what Percival claims is outrageous but some of it
is not.Even though he may not
convince most of his readers, many of his arguments are both ingenious and
entertaining—and often point to unresolved issues in the theory of
rationality.”

1.The Necessity of Exosomatic Knowledge for
Civilization and a Revision to our Epistemology. In the Anthology: The
Nothing in the Contemporary Thought. To be published by Bès
Éditions. Editor: Norbert-Bertrand Barbe. (Original
publication date:Fall, 2010. Revised by publishers to February 2012.)

2. Does the New Classicism Need Evolutionary
Theory? Beyond the Avant Garde, Open Court. 21 pages.(pub: Jan, 2009.)(NOTE: I was told by the
publishers that this was to be published in 2009, but I am currently
researching this.)

3.A Survey of British Epistemology, (2006)
Continuum Encyclopedia of British Philosophy.

In Szasz Under Fire:The Psychiatric Abolitionist
Faces his Critics. pp. 119 – 130.Editor:
Jeffrey Schaler, professor at American University, Washington, Department of
Justice and Law. (2004.) (Book favourably reviewed by The Journal of the American Medical Association and the British Medical Journal.)